I love when new courses come out, and I hate choosing between courses, sentiments which I think are shared among my fellow undergraduates. Despite the inordinate amount of time I pour into course ...

Doctor Who is a show about time travel, so of course, it goes to the future, or rather, it imagines futures. Time travel shows have two modes of story: going to the past or going to the future. Well, ...

Class matters as does its history. West Virginia wasn’t the only place where striking or protesting teachers entered the fray well aware and proud of their state’s long history of working class ...

More Americans are seeing a significant rift between rich and poor people, with most people saying there is a strong or very strong conflict between those who are wealthy and those who are not.A ...

The Democratic party elites have shown that they prefer Trump to Sanders. That is, they prefer the real risk of a second Trump mandate to the real risk of a Sanders presidency. How else can we explain ...

Kevin Smith used to think he led a comfortable middle-class existence that included a car and a home in a subdivision in Raleigh, North Carolina. But then he lost his job and felt himself slipping ...

This piece was written by Juan Cole, a Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also recently ...